The Sun. — London, England, 1818-01-29 00:00:00

0 I s is ose Ith tile Ind tisc tell til' iog NI, the V Si 01 ry; eiC re 71e, led arY to die We inn .1 . 11., )is, cle, as lit- the Ts (ify PO° ose are IA ic a de !,1"3, CM, isk, the (14 flger t iniatning the public mind 1 But it ap Pears ti,, fiv e or six independent Magistrates o. t e County were present at the late Meeting, and tle Pecated the imposition as strongly as we 4 ' 1 ( 1 (ober Papers have done; This is said to be trilly alarming." Alarming indeed it may be ° the Co m bi nation of BREWERS, to T HE L ICENCE ‘l . " B Etts, and to their patriotic Allies, in an Op 11°3itt"t1 Journal, but to no one else. To the loyal, lltiii litristrions m e n o f ever y c l ass , it m us t be a cheeri ng consolation to find that the friends of the t ~ ore rnrnent, and particularly independent Magis ;lates are sensibly a li ve t o an y ac t o f o ppression 11 4 " operat es aga i nst t h e ir i nterests an d com f orts , are determined resolutely to persevere in sup 10rting their just rights. A 'PPEA L OF MURDER.—This morning Abraham 4h Orid on was again brought np in the Court of t in g' B Bench. The 'case was further postponed till the 6t1 . 1 of February, SHIP NEWS. s'axtr act o f a Letter from the Agent to LLOYD'S at Dartmouth, dated Jan. 27. the be g l eave to i n f orm you o f t h e arr i va l o f l '"ettch ship Elizabeth, belonging to Rouen, 9tai ri LE C o mrrz, from Martin que, bound to ii 4vr e , with sugar , coffee, &c. &c. in 38 days.—l 1i .1 41 C aPt• KERGLIST and Officers, of the French t ' "te Car avan , l a t e ly lost at Martinique, are o lals engers on board, and am glad to find that only : e Of fi cer and nine of the crew were lost belong -11 to the frigate." Al l l44 Ly JAN. 28.—Arrived, and sailed for the ''l ' v et. th e O sw i n , K a y, f rom B enga l, an d Gar .;ll4) BaowN, from the C a p e of G oo d Hope.— 4i lle down from the River the Unity, tor v ia; Briton, REED, for Tarragona ; Lucy, ps v, for Ri o J ane i ro ; U ran i a, H UTCHINSON . 'or S t. Vincent's ; Sarah, Lucas, for Charante ; Latona, DENAMON, for the South Sea, and "main in the Downs. b" P "Tsmour H, J. 28.—Arrived from the 11 4w ris the Berwick, COMPTON, and Urania, °'eLL, for Barbadoes ; Ann, REYNOLDS, for 4 °4 2 12 1 ; Acteon, for Berbice ; Orion, WHlT te°^e.l for ditto ; Vittoria, CARLILL, for Vera 4 114 ; George 111 , FISHER, for Bengal ; FLINT, for Honduras ; Rambler, Worm t2tl:'RPE, for the Mediterranean, and several . P• Sailed he Shipley for Rotterdam. sbi ti m imouTH, JAN. 26.—Arrived the . American 4,r HAGUE, Irons New York, in 25 orders. P AeL L ' 4 I4.TT , JAN. 27.—Came in the Demerara ww\btßiteta,4V4l7. DYER, ABLES, from Demerara to London, and a rm srER, J AN . 28.—Arrived the Boston Packet ti Venu s transports from Calais, with troops. 11 41 twtcu, JAN. 28.—Sailed the Phcemx, , IP•a with mails and passengers for Cuxhaven, sI IIIN I-N4licy's Increase, with ditto for Helvoet- It °ll AvEsEt4a JAN. 28.—Arrived the Apollo, lie, from Carolina, and Louisa Fredericka from 4 4 °ek11 ° 111 ). Sailed the Blender Hall, Barr, for 111„ -s —al ea ; Proteous, James, for Vera Cruz ; and s "ger, P. ce, for St. Thomas's. telhATI; OF THE MARCIA:IS OF ABEIICORN.—At 4 t ley Priory, Statunore, on Tuesday last, died 414 JAMES HAMILTON, the Most Noble the k e iti lois of ABERCoILN, a Knight of the Garter, Per I t is some weeks since we no ti ce d i n our Pg. he lamented indisposition of that highly re -I;e`',led sod benevolent Peer. So anxious was his th„"'hip to prevent the anxieties of his friends, be forbade his domestics ever alluding to his --lof "s ill the slightest way. To prevent the pa tea, Physicians attending him at his country i 4 ' r e he con s t an tly came t o t own t o mee t th em 419tratford-place, three times a week The fa -44t: int exi s t e d in the stomach, said to he an enlargement of the liver. Appear klts daring the preceding week became still more 4' 414 44. llr . PEMEEKToN and other members tt l ll e Fac u l ty were t h en summone d to atten d q tr Patie nt at t h e P r i ory. Th e N o bl e L or d thin r ed much previous to his demise. The Mar-- tc, tl e.ss and Lady iIdA.BIA HAMILTON, his datigh 't‘iere present. By the death of this Noble- It t " 'he poor have sustained an incalculable loss : 11 ,Is i t) hi s 64th year,—(Morning Post.) I NOsoR, JAN. 28.—This morning her MA kttls?, accomp an i e d by t h e D uc h ess of GLotices-- kt le . Princ e ss E LIZABE TH, with their usual fo k - ,, ll(l4 itts, t oo k an a i r in g i o a coach and honoured the Earl and Countess of t ' ol lE'r_ with a morning visit at St. Leonard's' whe re t h e Royal Visitors stayed some ti me , it:l4lter partaking of some refreshment returned ti l e Castl e t o di nne r. ttp ill cd . roN, JAN. 27. , ---Yesterday the P RINCE ? t i 'NT took exe rcise irt the Riding Sch oo l Th e tit " , of CLARENCE, improved in health and spi ' l as on the Steyne and Cliff Parades this 111 thug, c !e Anniversary of the birth-day of the Doke .zuss,, x was celebrated on Tuesday at the eeiodsons' Tavern by two separate assemblages iiitotlenten in different rooms—by the frater of Masons ii) (me room, an d b y t h e reg i ment 1 .,"yal North B r i tons i n anot h er. 4.tt., 1 . EL it EV E, Ni ED.—lnformation having been I,:ea th a t a d t ; e l was about to take place on t oey-he a th, at clay-break y ester d ay morning, 'wee!) Mr. M`G--N, a Staff Surgeon, and B --E, in conserpo'nee of some high 1 ..,0tds at a coffee-house in Bond -street, constables ele waiting their reception, which being made . I ►own to th e p art i es when at Put ney , they took 4 other di rect i on towards Richmond, POETRY'. DEGRADATION. . • " What can ennoble Soots, or Slaves, or Cowards ? " Alas ! nut all the blood of all the HowAßos." That Wags and Punsters are inclin'd To sport on highest themes, we find, While noblest men are scoft on— Hence chang'd, though Decency it shocks, is MotAnceux to, Mule and Ox, And SEFTON into Sop One. THE DEAD ALIVE. It seems the rumour that went round, Of SEFTON'S death, untrue is found, For he has frank'd a letter ; The news must gratify his friends, - As they, if once his Lordship mends, May hope he will get better. PA RLI AM r,N TA HY PAPERS. The Treaty between this Country and Spain, by which the latter engages to abolish the Slate Trade, was last night laid before both Houses of Parliament. The following are the principal Ar ticles of this Treaty : Article I.—His Catholic Majesty engages, that the Slave Trade shall be abolished throughout the entire domin,ons of Spain, on the 30th day of May, 1820, and that, from and af ter that period, it shall not be lawful fur any of the subjects of the Crown of Spain to purchase Slaves, or to carry on the Slave Trade, on any part of the Coast of Africa, upon any pretext or in any manner whatever; provided, however, that a term of five months, from the said date of the 30th of May, 1820, shall be allowed for completing the voyages of vessels which shall have cleared out lawfully previously to the 30th of May. 11. It is hereby agreed, that from and after the exchange of the ratifications of the present Treaty, ii shall itot be lawful for any of the subjects of the Crown of Spai to purchase Slaves, or to call) on the st ive Trade on any patt of tne coast of Africa to the north ut the E q uator. upou any pretext or in any wanner whatever ; p; ;vitled, however, that a term of six months, from the date of the exchange tn . the ratifica ii,tos of his Treaty, -hall , e allowed for corn,,leting the voyages of vesses which shall hat .•. cleared out from Spanish 'Anis fur the said coast, proviuoiy to the exchange of the said rat l,fit'ations. 111. 111% Britannic Nlajesty engages to pay, in London. ou the ot February, 1815, the stun of 400,0001. sterling, to such p.rs.ia as his Catholic Majesty shall appoiat t,i re ceir. the some. 111.—The said sum of four hundred thousand pounds sterl ing is to be considered as a full compensation tot all losses sustained by the subjects of his Catholic Majesty engaged iu this Traffic, on account of vessels captured previously to tie exchange of the Ratifications of the present I'rcaty, as also for the losses which are a necessary consequence of the abolition of the said Traffic. The articles rela►e chiefly to regulations and imtructions. 'rimy are of minor importance. THE THEATRE. A very interesting Melo-Drame, in two acts, was Last night brought forward at Drury-lane Theatte, tinder the title of The Turret Clock. To amuse our numerous Country Readers, w ko cannot witness the performance, we subjoin an outline, of the FABLE. Moutravers, a young English Officer (performed by Mr. PENLEY), is in love with Nerina (Miss lveus), tile daughter of a Spanish Don of great wealth and influence. An elope ment is agreed upon between the parties, and the hour fixed when the fair fugitive is to quit her father's house, and con fide in the love and honour of a soldier. There is, however, another suitor in the way. Don Alvara (Mr. It. PHILLips), a wealthy Noble, advanced in years, is expected every mo ment, and he has her father's approbation. But there is still another obstacle between our lovers and success. A hand of robbers infest the neighbourhood; and while Montravers is on his way to keep his appointment, lie rescues a stranger from their violence by his bravery; this stranger proves to he his own rival. After much persuasion, he enters his lover's house, with his rival and her father, a few moments before she makes her escape, as was previously concerted. While they converse the turret clock strikes. Nerina is missed, and her rather offers to grant any reward that may be named by the person fortunate enough to find her. .Montravers rushes out in pursuit. In the meanwhile Nerina is encountered by the robbers, who take from her a precious necklace, atter which they abandon her iu a wood. Here she meets with a shepherd travelling to the next village, to hire as a servant with the widow of the Alcalde lately deceased. She pur chases from him the clothes he had provided for the occa sion, and thus equipped sets forward to the same destination. The arrival in the village is marked by an extraordinary cir cumstance. The people want a new Alcalde; nu candidate for the office appears, and by a local custom it is provided that under those circumstances the first stranger who arrives is compelled to accept the office. Nerina is the first to arrive. While these events are in progress, Nlontravers meets the rubber who had plundered the necklace of his beloved ; he recognizes the property, and supposing her to have been murdered by the villain, encounters him in single combat, conquers him, and leaves hint for dead. He is seized imme di itely by the officers of justice, for the act, and brought to answer it before the new appointed Alcalde. His mistress is of course a lenient and partial Judge, but her arguments tail to release him, until the supposed murdered person is brought into Court, charged with another robbery. The father makes his appearance at the same time.. She throws off her disguise, acknowledges her sex, implores her father, embraces her lover, and is married with all the expedition that charac ,terizes that ceremony on the stage. This piece, from its mixture of lightness and mystery, seems to be of Gallic origin. It has been well aiapted to the English Stage, and is brought forward with due effect. The alternations of love, hope, danger, despair, and final happi ness, are well sustained, and the variety of the incidents enable the piece altogether to lay a strong bold on the feelings of the audience. It was much indebted in the representation to HARLEY, OXBERRY, Mrs. A csor, Miss IYERS, and Mrs. HARLOWE, and, with a little alteration, is likely to be popular and attractive SHOCKING ACCIDENT. Yesterday morning, between one and two o'clock, Mr. Lowrie, the Drum-major of the Ist or Grenadier Guards, was carried into St. George's Hospital, with his thighs lacerated in a most dreadful manner, and bleeding very profusely. It appears that he had been at the guard-room at the Horse Guards with some friends until past one o'clock, and then left to go to his house at Knightsbridge. When he arrived at the Park-gate at the top of Constitution-bill, be found it shut, but he determined to get over rather than walk round the Park, and, in making the attempt, fell upon the spikes on the top of the gate; they, entered his thighs ; he called out for assistance, but remained in that state in the utmost agony tor more than 10 minutes before any one came up. Mr. Nelson, of Eaton-gar dens, Pimlico, fortunately passed with a friend, and they, with great difliculty,• extricated him from the gate, and_conveyed him to the Hospital. OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC QUESTION. FOR THE SUN. PART VII. MR. EDITOR,-On our reformation of Religion, the National Church was Papal ; and when HENRY VIII. assumed the spiritual Supremacy, he was a Papist; but it was only introductory to that Pro testant Supremacy which has vested in suc c eeding Sovereigns (his daughter MARY only excepted.) In a Pope it governs •the conscience of the people, and keeps them in (la; kness ;. every thing being directly or indirectly relative to faith and doctrine, and as priests pretend to have the power of saving or destroying souls, they will be better obeyed, through hope and fear, than the civil Magistrate,' who has no claims beyond this world. The Dutch, who allow full liberty of con-, science, do not admit any persons into civil offices who do not conform to the legal worship ; but they • admit into their army all persons., from necessity „ because, from the nature of their government, they are obliged to hire foreigners, let their religion be what it may. In a word, as no substantial reason can be given, though many an artful and flimsy one has been set up, for receiving Roman Catholics into the Army and Navy of a Protestant Kingdom, let them enjoy their religions liberty, in gratitude and peace. Let then► study to instruct them selves in useful knowledge, and free the bulk of them from the bondage of ignorance and bigotry, superstition and oppression. They will then cease to be partial to their errors, speaking of the many compared to the few, and become a general be nefit to their whole body. The writer of these papers is their friend. He is attached to no form of worship, at the expence of any. AU have the same end, and ought to be tolerated ; but he is► persuaded, horn a long life of universal experience, that none except those who are genuine members of a National Church, are entitled, however pure and chaste their characters in private life, to come into offices of trust and power, or have command in our Army or Navy. He has freely assigned his reasons, which be would as freely retract if better could be offered for the contrary. This he be lieves to be impossible, while an Established Church is necessary to lessen the duty of the Ma gistrate, by correcting our judgments, and amend ing our hearts. In the language of TERENCE, be is a man, and nothing whereby his fellow crea tures are affected will ever be indifferent to him. TERRJE FILIUS, RQnto sum humani nihil a me alienum puts. (Part VIII. will contain a Refutation of the Argunients against the Test Act.) DISTRESSED SEAMEN. FOR THE SUN. FRO3I THE BUOY OF THE WORE. MR. EDITOR,—The ready insertion in your Paper of the 6th inst. of my last letter upon the above subject, induces me again to trouble you through the same channel 'of communication, that first informed me of the distressed state of the Seamen of the British Empire. I now learn, that although a subscription has been set on foot, and receptacles provided for their cover, yet hundreds are obliged daily to be turned from the door of benevolence unrelieved —so small are the funds and circumscribed the means of assistance. I have heard read, with heartfelt emotion, the Address to the . Public from the 'Committee appointed to carry on this laudable undertaking ; and, notwithstanding such an appeal, I - counted in the Newspapers of the 24th instant only 21 subscribers to this great, this interesting demand.upon national feeling and na tional gratitude ; and out of this small ntimber, several appear to be Naval Officers, who certainly best know the worth and value of their brave but unfortunate companions. in arms and danger, but wbo are as certainly not the most able to relieve them. Gracious God !—only 21 subscribers in a whole day throughout the wealthy, the luxtu ions population of the Metropolis, found to contribute to the support of hundreds, nay thousands, of destitute Seamen, who have fought .and nobly bled to preserve their King and Country. I must again, through you, Sir, appeal to the British Nation in behalf of these thoughtless, but gal lant, deserving, but destitute, forlorn, but not, it is to be hoped, forsaken, British Tan: Can the Nation .so soon forget its obligations to their Sea men—are the names of HowE, of DUNCAN, NELSON, DUCK WORTH, COTTON, COLLINGWOOD, GARDNER, and other mighty Heroes now num bered with the dead, obliterated—and the daring deeds of ST. VINCENT, SAUMAREZ, EXMOUTH, with hosts of other living Heroes, no more re membered ? Is it no longer recollected of British Seamen, the masculine and mighty efforts made by them for this happy land's prosperity ? Is it forgotten, that no force could subdue their prowess—no climate could screen, no port pro tect, no distance could save the flag of any enemy to their country ? Wherever waved a hostile flag, it- trembled at a British Tar's approach, and was always humbled as they came in contact. No at tack was too mighty for British Sailors to con template, and no resistance equal. to damp his ar dour. The rampart, enveloped in tire and smoke, has been a thousand times successfully ascended, and the cannon's mouth, while lighted matches were at the touch-hole, as often marched up to. No feat of heroic bravery that could excite admi ration—no act of desperate daring, from which success could at all he hoped, has been left +mat temptedor imaccomplished. , It was the British Tars who first infused the spirit, set the example, and ronsed the valour of the British Soldiers. — Without NELSON, England would not, as a notion, hnoe known a WELt.txGTosz. And are these gal lant, but thoughtless, fellows to pine in silent, .sad distress, and abject poverty ? They are too noble to wish for inglorious ease, or beggarly subsistence. Cannot some plan be d?vised r their employ, some extensive Fishery, some new Discoveries ?—Can they at all be employed while temporarily embarked afloat ?—either by making mats, rope, points, gaskets,wadding, spun yarn, or other useful articles,wanted alike for merchant ves sels and ships of war. In the meantime, I would, on their behalf, invoke, entreat, and implore the nation's sympathy and assistance. Some power ful advocate or eloquent . Orator will, it is to be hoped, bring their distressed case before the ,great Council of the Nation at time ensuing Meet ing of Parliament. While gratitude should urge the Common Council of London, foremost as they usually are in acts of splendid munificence, to set an example to the Council of every other City, the Corporation of every Town, the Mayor of every Borough, and Magistrate of every district, by opening auxiliary subscrip tions for the relief of distressed Seamen. F r my own part, Sir, I shall urge every Buoy like myself, every Beacon round the land, every Light house that has guided them to port in peaceful calm, or warned them from it in storms and perils, to lose no time in coming forward and subscribing to the utmost of their power in behalf of their unfortunate, gallant, and suffering Co , ntry urn. 46th Jan. 1818. THE BUOY OF THE NJRE. PATRONAGE OF PROFANATION. While the factious Prints of the Metropolis are supporting the cause of BLASPHEMY and HONE, we shall endeavour to put them to shame by the following extract from that loyal, spirited, and intelligent Journal, The (Dublin) Correspondent, of the 26th inst.:-- " The Duke of BEDFORD has thought the ex ample of Lord SEFTON worthy of imitation ; and his Grace and his son—the heir to his Titles, Principles, and Discretiona—have subscribed, the one a hundred, and the other fifty guineas, to the contribution in aid of Mr. HONE. Lord SEFTON is, it seems, a very young man—sickly and eccen tric, and what the world calls—an odd fish, His Grace of BEDFORD, without any of those peculiar qualifications for making such a donation, has, however. his reasons for testifying his admiration. of blasphemous parodies, and his warm applanse for seeing the authority of the judgment-seat des pised, and the Chief Justice of England insulted, while.employed in the administration of the sacrt d duties of his office. Considering the spirit of the times, the prudence of this conduct will be ques tioned by many ; but, considering that his Grace is a Whig, or an Oppositionist--at least, that he belongs to a party which endeavours to thwart and embarrass the Government in all •its measures —the necessity of the case may account for a pro ceeding, which no zeal for the honour of his un derstanding, or the elevation of his character, as a public man, or a private member of society, could find it easy to excuse. " His Grace acted under a political necessity— which, like misery, acquaints a man with strange bed-fellows.' His party have no misfortune now, of very great pratnise, which they can reckon up on, or upon which they may hang their expecta tions. BUONAPARTE is quiet at St. Helena—aka., war is at an end—the country of dilapidated re sources ' is the wealthiest and most powerful in the world—and Famine and Revolution have not, by throwing society into disorder, opened a per ceptible vista of hope, to any one enemy, of any kind or - description, which is opposed to the Ministers, or the measures of Govern ment. The .Party have nothing for it, but to make en alliance with every turbulent spirit that has courage enough to set a bad example as a subject—who pursues notoriety as a means of making money—and who, in the pursuit, has imPudence enough to call the fulfilment of his responsibility to the law a persecution set on foot by a Minister, and his escape from punishment a victory gained over the Government. " The Treasnry.Journals, as they are called— limns a non lumdo—mistake the matter, when they ineasigh against his Grace ,the Duke of BED • FORA, for subscribing to Mr. HO - NE's subscription. They should commiserate his Grace for being dri ven to the sad necessity of such a step. He has not acted for himself, but for his party—not as a man, but as a Whig. His party is in contempt-- in universal contempt, as politicians, as patriots, as any thing to be respected. They ha - ve no chance of picking up any •cordial acquaintance with the populace, and gaining to theitadepressed and battered cause the lungs of the mob, but by following the tail of such public characters as Wool as or HONE, or perhaps EVANS, who threatens to go to law with public justice. 'there fore, the Duke's contribution is not what the world thinks it, perhapsa—homaee to the success ful escape of blasphemy and libe r i from that com mon oppressor, the Law of the Land ; but a testis fication of the contemptible necessity which has, sunk his ',arty to the earth, and will not stiffer them to lift their noses out of the mire, unless HONE, or Wooten, or Hva'r, or sonic of this fraternity, will take compassion. and receive them under their dignified patronage !" i